Liu Yu's words made everyone's faces change significantly.

Death!

This term is not unfamiliar to survivalists.

In wilderness survival, every year there are participants who die due to various accidents.

However, this probability is very low.

At this point, Liu Yu continued: "Not to mention the distant past, but just last time during the Eight Extremes Challenge, there were fatalities on the association's side."

"At that time, Vice President Mr. Yang and a participant surnamed Tang both met with accidents, one buried at sea, and the other in the desert. Our death rate was twenty percent, which was the lowest among the groups."

"Last time, the highest death rate was probably among the participants from India. I remember only one person survived in the end; among the others, five were lost in Antarctica and the remaining four were defeated in the Sahara, with a death rate of ninety percent there."

These words made everyone's faces look even grimmer.

However, Chen Wen was flipping through the previous data, looking at the situations of Mr. Yang and the participant Tang.

A moment later, Chen Wen's pupils contracted.

Mr. Yang was surviving the Ocean Extremes, namely the Pacific Ocean.

He was on a bamboo raft in the open sea when he was attacked by a group of sharks.

Although a helicopter rushed to rescue him in the shortest possible time, less than thirty seconds after the attack, he was completely torn apart by the shark group.

The rescuers only brought back some body fragments.

The participant Tang faced a drone malfunction during the Sahara challenge.

No one outside knew what was happening with him there, but three days later, he made a satellite phone call requesting emergency help.

However, when the rescue team arrived.

The participant Tang had already died of dehydration and poisoning in the desert, with the yellow sand having buried most of his body.

Indeed dangerous!

Chen Wen took a deep breath, having participated in survival challenges up until now.

This was the first time he had encountered a survival challenge with such a high mortality rate.

At this time, Liu Yu continued from the high ground: "One minute, I'll give you one minute to think. Within this minute, if you choose to withdraw, you just need to sign a confidentiality agreement, and you can completely avoid such a dangerous survival situation."

Hearing this, many people had flickering eyes.

They did not know the danger level of this challenge was surprisingly high.

Thus, within the minute after Liu Yu finished speaking.

Seventeen people chose to withdraw one after another.

After they headed towards the place to sign the confidentiality agreement under the guidance of the staff.

Liu Yu curved his mouth into a smile, and said to everyone: "Very good, from now on, don't talk to me about quitting again."

"Next, let's start looking at the data, you can discuss with each other, or ask those who have participated before. Our association currently has six members who have participated in the Eight Extremes Challenge, five of whom are present, let's have them introduce themselves to you."

Below the stage, Vice President Feng Zhong, Vice President Zhao, and three other middle-aged members, who looked to be in their forties, stood up.

Feng Zhong was the first to speak: "I have participated in three challenges, and passed two, specifically the Beast Extremes Serengeti and Heat Extremes Sahara, the failed one was the Forest Extremes Western Siberia."

Zhao followed by saying: "I'm a bit better than Feng, having participated in six challenges, passing four, namely the Mountain Extremes, Forest Extremes, Beast Extremes, and Heat Extremes."

The other three were mostly similar to Feng Zhong, with three out of two, but the challenges they passed were different.

Chen Wen realized that this Eight Extremes Challenge does not seem to limit the number of participations, nor does it have a fixed order.

Sure enough, he found the rules in the data.

As long as recommended by the association, any participant can join.

Besides the seed participants, each participant has only one chance for each challenge during an Eight Extremes Challenge.

Seed participants get two chances.

Once the qualifications are used up, one can only wait for the next Eight Extremes Challenge to start competing again.

Chen Wen roughly looked over, the Eight Extremes Challenge lasts for four years each time.

During these four years, you can use your challenge chances freely to complete all eight challenges.

Statistics are compiled after four years.

To see how many each person passed, and accumulate for the next challenge start.

After the five experienced stood up to speak, Liu Yu signaled for everyone to look at the data and discuss.

He then left the conference hall with the president. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

On Chen Wen's side, after looking at the data for a while, he couldn't help but prod Hua Yun in front of him who was reading the data: "Hey Hua, did you notice? It seems this thing doesn't mention what benefits completing the Eight Extremes Challenge brings? Is it just a title?"

Hearing this, Hua Yun rolled his eyes.

Hua?

Am I old?

Clearing his throat, Hua Yun turned around and said: "I don't really know the specifics either..."

Just as the two were starting to talk, Vice President Zhao walked over with a smile.

He casually sat down beside Chen Wen and said: "Of course, there are benefits, more than you can imagine."

"Let me talk about it from three aspects: wealth, honor, and status."

"Wealth is the simplest. When we participate in challenges, many rich people and businessmen will place bets, global exploration and survival associations act as the house, publishing odds before each challenge starts. After participating in challenges, if you complete a challenge, the association will share fifty percent of the money earned from you."

Hearing this, Chen Wen was about to say why only fifty percent?

But Zhao had already anticipated and said: "Chen, don't underestimate this fifty percent, it's bet by many of the world's top wealthy individuals! To say nothing more, just from when I passed the Mountain Extremes last time, the money I got was almost a million! And that's with extremely low odds for me, if it were higher, hmpf, tens of millions are not out of the question!"

After saying that, Zhao added: "It's all US Dollars! And some with a greater gambling instinct, or those with a lot of immovable assets will also use stocks, real estate for betting, these immovable assets can also possibly be directly obtained by participants."

"Next is honor, because this challenge involves gambling and is too bloody, we haven't publicized it, it's tacitly acknowledged, some netizens who know how to bypass the firewall also know this, but it's different abroad, many countries publicly acknowledge this challenge and open low-end betting options for people to place bets. In these countries, they will award some honor to their local winners."

"Of course, if you go to these countries, and their associations and those in power made money off of you, they will also give you some honors, like 'Knight,' 'Duke,' etc."

"These may sound like empty titles, but often abroad, foreigners still buy into this, after all, they are beneficiaries, they certainly want to acknowledge it."

"Finally, there's status, it sounds similar to honor, but actually, this has quite an effect on us, because the positions of our association's president and vice president are determined by the number of Eight Extremes Challenges passed."

At this, Zhao gave Hua Yun a meaningful glance: "You need to complete at least two challenges this time, or else after the four-year term end, you might lose your current position."

Hua Yun nodded, looking serious.

At this point, Chen Wen couldn't help but say: "So if I don't lack money, don't want fame, and don't want status, does participating in this thing mean nothing for me?"

Hearing this, Zhao's formerly inscrutable expression suddenly changed.

He couldn't help but glare at Chen Wen: "You brat! Are you nitpicking? Who doesn't need money? Even those top-notch rich people, can they claim they don't need money then take out all their money to give to the poor?"

Chen Wen thought about it, then shook his head.